Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project
A Program of The JCC in Manhattan
Our Work
Jewish Women's Leadership and Philanthropy
From its inception, Ma'yan has been committed to expanding the impact of Jewish women's philanthropic activism and communal leadership. One of our first initiatives in this area encouraged women to target their philanthropic dollars toward Jewish women's issues and projects in the United States and in Israel. Work in this area has also included:
- Women and Money Conferences designed to encourage women to recognize their potential and to become donor activists who would create an effective strategy for transferring their legacy of philanthropy and leadership to the next generation.
- No Small Change, an educational tzedakah collective that joined young women professionals and adolescent girls and led to the creation of an innovative youth philanthropy curriculum.
- " Commissioning a major study of the status of women in Jewish organizational life. The final report, Power and Parity: Women on the Boards of National Jewish Organizations, demonstrated that women were neither in leadership positions in these organizations nor were their talents being cultivated in the leadership pipeline. The report was widely distributed as part of an educational campaign to raise public awareness of gender inequity in American Jewish communal life. In our role as a catalyst for change, Ma'yan hired a team of consultants to work with a major national Jewish organization. This work increased the number of women in leadership positions on the organization's board and led to the election of their first woman president. In the spring of 2003, Ma'yan sponsored the Impact and Influence conference, a summit for Jewish women volunteer leaders organized by Shifra Bronznick. Collectively, our work in this area eventually led to the creation of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community.
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